Ultimately fromLatin millesimum . The clippings come by way of the clipped words (e.g.,millilitre ,millimetre ,milliradian ).
mil (plural mils )
Anangular mil , a unit ofangular measurement equal to1 ⁄ 6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres onemil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also1 ⁄ 6000 and1 ⁄ 6300 are used in other countries. A unit of measurement equal to1 ⁄ 1000 of aninch (25.4 µm), usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.Synonym: thou Alternative form: mill For this task, I prefer the plastic sheeting that is 10mils thick.
A former subdivision (1 ⁄ 1000 ) of theMaltese lira . ( informal ) Clipping ofmilliliter .Synonyms: mL ,ml ,cm³ ,cc We told her to give her daughter tenmils of cough syrup and to call us back if the cough gets worse.
( informal ) Clipping ofmillimeter .Synonym: mm Alternative form: mill For this task, I prefer the plastic bars that are 10mils in diameter.
( informal ) Clipping ofmilliradian .A dot in a mil-dot reticle represents onemil , which corresponds to a few inches at 100 yards.
Clipping ofmillion .
mil (plural mil )
( informal ) Clipping ofmillion .Word has it that they were offered a cool tenmil to sell their farm to the land developers.
2009 , Bob Frey,The DVD Murders , page39 :The cheapest shack in this part of the woods would probably set the buyer back at least a couple ofmil .
2010 September, Galen Gondolfi, "Idea Fun(d)",St. Louis magazine , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 79:You can get things done without money, but you can do a hell of a lot more with it, and $10mil is a good starting point. Clipping ofmilitary .
mil (notcomparable )
Clipping ofmilitary .Akin toSpanish mil , fromLatin mīlle .
mil
thousand Inherited fromLatin mīlle .
mil (indeclinable )
one thousand ; 1000mil llobos ―one thousand wolvesmil vaques ―one thousand cowsIn compound numbers,mil does not inflect or change:
mil dos ―one thousand two mil trenta y nueve ―one thousand thirty-nine tres mil ―three thousand venti mil ―twenty thousand FromMiddle Breton mil , fromProto-Brythonic *mil , fromLatin mīlia . Cognate withCornish mil ,Welsh mil ,Irish míle .
mil
thousand FromMiddle Breton mil , fromProto-Brythonic *mil (compareCornish mil ,Welsh mil ), fromProto-Celtic *mīlom (compareOld Irish míl and its descendants;Irish míol ,Scottish Gaelic míl ,Manx meeyl ), fromProto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- ( “ small animal” ” ) .
CompareAncient Greek μῆλον ( mêlon ,“ lamb ” ) ,Armenian մալ ( mal ,“ sheep; mutton; wether; cattle; livestock ” ) ,Central Kurdish ماڵ ( mall ,“ livestock ” ) ,Dutch maal ( “ calf ” ) .
mil m (plural miled )
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Inherited fromOld Catalan mil , fromLatin mīlle , fromProto-Italic *smīɣeslī , fromProto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ ( “ one thousand ” ) .
mil m or f
( cardinal number ) thousand mil m (plural mils )
thousand Borrowed fromSpanish mil , fromOld Spanish mil ,mill , fromLatin mīlle .
mil
thousand For quotations using this term, seeCitations:mil .
Inherited fromSpanish mil ( “ thousand ” ) .
mil
thousand Cornish numbers(edit ) [a] ,[b] ,[c] ← 1 ← 100 1000 1,000 1,000,000 (106 ) → [a] ,[b] 1,000,000,000 (109 ) → [a] ,[b] Cardinal :mil Ordinal :milves Ordinal abbreviation :1000ves Adverbial :milweyth Multiplier :milblek
FromProto-Brythonic *mil , fromLatin mīlia . Cognate withBreton andWelsh mil .
mil
one thousand mil f (plural milyow )
thousand FromMiddle Cornish mil ,myl , fromOld Cornish mil ,Proto-Brythonic *mil , fromProto-Celtic *mīlom , fromProto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- ( “ small animal” ” ) . Cognate withBreton mil ,Irish míol ,Manx meeyl ,Scottish Gaelic mial , andWelsh mil .
mil m (plural miles )
animal FromVulgar Latin *melem m or f , fromLatin mel n .
mil m
honey Borrowed throughLow German , fromLatin mil(l)ia (passum ) "thousand (steps)."
mil
mile , unit oflength of varying valueBorrowed fromLatin mīlle .Doublet ofmejlo .
IPA (key ) : [mil] Hyphenation: mil mil
thousand IPA (key ) : /ˈmil/ ,[ˈmil] Hyphenation:mil Clipping ofmillal .
mil
when Kord tuleb päev,mil tuleb minna. There will once be a daywhen we have to go. Clipping ofmillel .
mil (not comparable )
that Tänaval oli auto,mil olid punased triibud. There was a car on the streetthat had red stripes. FromLatin milium .
mil m (plural mils )
( now dialectal ) millet Synonym: millet FromLatin mīlle .
mil
thousand Carro Carro IPA (key ) : /ˈmil/ [ˈmiɫ] Rhymes:-il Hyphenation:mil FromOld Galician-Portuguese mil , fromLatin mīlle , fromProto-Italic *smīɣeslī , fromProto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ ( “ one thousand ” ) .
mil (indeclinable )
one thousand ; 10001474. FromVulgar Latin *medianile , fromLatin mediānus . Compare the cognatesmión andmolo .[ 1]
mil m (plural miles )
central piece of theGalician cart wheel Synonyms: mión ,miúl ,molo 1474 , A. López Ferreiro, editor,Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática , Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page66 :Iten, preçaron hun rrodisioe dousmiilles de carro em noventa maravedis Item, they appraised a water wheel and twowheel centers of a cart in ninety maravedis Ernesto Xosé González Seoane ,María Álvarez de la Granja ,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006 –2022 ) “mil ”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006 –2018 ) “miil ”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega “mil ” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016. Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , editor (2006 –2013 ), “mil ”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language ] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández ,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane ,María Álvarez de la Granja , editors (2003 –2018 ), “mil ”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco , editor (2014 –2024 ), “mil ”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega ,→ISSN mil
eye mil
thousand ( 1,000 ) mile ( measure of distance ) Borrowed from Esperanto mil , French mille , Italian mille , Spanish mil , fromLatin mīlle .
mil
thousand Borrowed fromSpanish mil .
IPA (key ) : /ˈmil/ [ˈmil] Hyphenation:mil mil
thousand Synonym: ribo FromDutch mijl , fromMiddle Dutch mile , ultimately fromLatin mīlia .
mil (plural mil -mil )
English orAmerican mile ,a unit of distance equivalent to about 1.6 km ( historical ) mijl ,Dutch mile orleague ,a unit of distance equivalent to about 5–6 km milepost ,milestone ,km marker Synonyms: batu ,pal ,tonggak FromEnglish mail , fromMiddle English male , fromAnglo-Norman male ,Old French male ( “ bag, wallet ” ) , fromFrankish *malha ( “ bag ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *malhō ( “ bag, pouch ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *molko- ( “ leather pouch ” ) .
mil (plural mil -mil )
( colloquial ) mail : the material conveyed by the postal serviceFromOld Irish mil ,[ 1] fromProto-Celtic *meli , fromProto-Indo-European *mélid . Cognate withLatin mel ,Ancient Greek μέλι ( méli ) . Akin tomilis andblas .
mil f (genitive singular meala )
honey Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “mil ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906 )A Dialect of Donegal , Cambridge University Press,§ 99 , page39 Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977 ) “mil ”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla , Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN MacBain, Alexander , Mackay, Eneas (1911 ) “mil”, inAn Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language [1] , Stirling,→ISBN de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959 ) “mil ”, inEnglish-Irish Dictionary , An Gúm“mil ”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary , Foras na Gaeilge,2013-2025 FromPortuguese mil .
mil
thousand (1000)FromVulgar Latin *melem m or f , fromLatin mel n .
mil f (uncountable )
honey AIS:Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland ] –map 1159: “il miele” – onnavigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it Inherited fromOld Spanish mil orOld Spanish mill , fromLatin mīlle , fromProto-Italic *smīɣeslī , fromProto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ ( “ one thousand ” ) .
mil (Hebrew spelling מיל )[ 1]
thousand ( 1,000 ) 2000 ,Aki Yerushalayim [2] , numbers62–64 ,page76 :Diezisiete anyos tenia Moshe Aelion kuando fue deportado por los almanes a Auschwitz, djuntos kon su madre i su ermana i los serka de 60mil djudios de Saloniko. Moshe Aelion was seventeen years old when he was deported by the Germans to Auschwitz, together with his mother, sister, and around sixtythousand Jews from Salonica. ^ “mil ”, inTrezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola .Inherited fromFrench mille ( “ thousand ” ) .
mil
thousand mil
you (plural)Antonio Maccioni / Machoni,Arte y vocabulario de la lengua lule y tonocoté (1732) FromArabic مِيل ( mīl ) .
mil m (dual milejn ,plural mjiel or mili )
mile FromMiddle High German mül ,müle , fromOld High German mulī ,mulin , fromProto-Germanic *mulīnō ,*mulīnaz , fromLate Latin molīnum ( “ mill ” ) . Cognate withGerman Mühle ,English mill .
mil f
mill mil
( anatomy ) eye mil ?
arm shoulder neck FromLatin milia ,millia andOld Norse míla .
mil m or f (definite singular mila or milen ,indefinite plural mil ,definite plural milene )
( today in Norway ) a distance of 10 kilometresgammel norskmil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres engelskmil - amile , 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US. “mil” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .FromLatin milia ,millia andOld Norse míla .
mil f (definite singular mila ,indefinite plural mil ,definite plural milene )
( today in Norway ) a distance of 10 kilometresgammal norskmil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres engelskmil - amile , 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US. Indefinite pluralmiler was made non-standard by thespelling reform of 2012 .
“mil” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .FromLatin mīlle .
mil
thousand Joan de Cantalausa (2006 )Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians [3] , 2 edition,→ISBN , page648 .Borrowed fromLatin mīlia , plural of the numeralmīlle .
mīl f
mile late 9th century ,translation ofOrosius’ History Against the Pagans Sardina is þrī and þrīttimīla lang, and twā and twentiġmīla brād. Sardinia is thirty-threemiles long, and twenty-twomiles wide. Strongō -stem:
mil
Alternative form ofmile ( “ thousand ” ) Old Galician-Portuguese [ edit ] Inherited fromLatin mīlle , fromProto-Italic *smīɣeslī , fromProto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ ( “ one thousand ” ) .
mil
thousand ( 1,000 ) Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006 –2018 ) “mil ”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Ernesto Xosé González Seoane ,María Álvarez de la Granja ,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006 –2022 ) “mil ”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Manuel Ferreiro (2014 –2025 ) “mil ”, inUniverso Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña:University of A Coruña ,→ISSN FromProto-Celtic *meli n , fromProto-Indo-European *mélit .
mil f (genitive melo )
honey c. 800 , Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb.7d 9 Hi sunt tra ↄ·ricc frissa lind serb in chúrsactha lase foruillecta beóil in chalich dimil cosse anall... Herein, then, he comes into contact with the bitter drink of the reproval, when the lips of the chalice have hitherto been smeared withhoney ... Feminine i-stem singular dual plural nominative mil — — vocative mil — — accusative mil N — — genitive melo H ,mela H — — dative mil L — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
H = triggers aspirationL = triggers lenitionN = triggers nasalizationMutation ofmil radical lenition nasalization mil also mmil after a proclitic ending in a vowel mil pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ unchanged
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Inherited fromLatin mīlle , fromProto-Italic *smīɣeslī , fromProto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ ( “ one thousand ” ) .
mil
thousand ( 1,000 ) c. 1200 , Almerich,Fazienda de Ultramar ,f. 36r. :Job fue much rich õe e ouo .v. fijos. ⁊ .iij. fijas. ⁊ ouo .mil . ouejas. ⁊ .iij.mil . camellos. ⁊ .d. iugos de bueẏes. ⁊ .v.mil aſnas. ⁊ tẽtol el diablo ⁊ diol pođ nr̃o ſẽnor ſobre quãto auia. Job was a very rich man. And he had five sons and three daughters. And he owned athousand sheep and threethousand camels and five hundred yoke of oxen and fivethousand donkeys. And the Devil tempted him and Our Lord gave him power over all that he had. Ralph Steele Boggset al. (1946 ) “mil”, inTentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish , volume II, Chapel Hill,page344 Inherited fromPortuguese mil andSpanish mil andKabuverdianu mil .
mil
thousand ( 1,000 ) CompareClassical Nahuatl milpan .
mil
cornfield Campbell, L. (1985).The Pipil Language of El Salvador . Mouton De Gruyter. Lara-Martínez, R., McCallister, R.Glosario cultural náwat pipil y nicarao . Inherited fromOld Galician-Portuguese mil , fromLatin mīlle , fromProto-Italic *smīɣeslī , fromProto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ ( “ one thousand ” ) .
Rhymes:( Portugal ) -il ,( Brazil ) -iw Hyphenation:mil mil m or f
onethousand ; a thousand; 1000 ( somewhat poetic ) thousands of( very many ) Synonyms: milhares de ,um milhão de For quotations using this term, seeCitations:mil .
→ Kadiwéu:miili > Papiamentu:mil ( inherited ) mil n (plural miluri )
Obsolete form ofmilă .mil in Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a , Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN FromOld Irish mil (genitivemela ), fromProto-Celtic *meli , fromProto-Indo-European *mélid . Cognate withWelsh mêl ,Cornish mill ,Breton mel ,Latin mel ,Greek μέλι ( méli ) ,Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 ( miliþ ) ,Old Armenian մեղր ( mełr ) .
mil f (genitive singular mealach or meala ,plural mealan )
honey Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Edward Dwelly (1911 ) “mil”, inFaclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary ][4] , 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited,→ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “mil ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language FromProto-Slavic *milъ . Cognate withPolish miły .
mȋl (comparative milȇjši ,superlative nȁjmilȇjši )
kind dear “mil ”, inSlovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene),2014–2025 FromOld Spanish mil orOld Spanish mill , fromLatin mīlle , fromProto-Italic *smīɣeslī , fromProto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ ( “ one thousand ” ) .
IPA (key ) : /ˈmil/ [ˈmil] Rhymes:-il Syllabification:mil mil
thousand When pluralized as a specific number, the formmil is still used:dosmil pesos ―twothousand pesos cienmil pesos ―one hundredthousand pesos mil m (plural miles )
( chiefly in the plural ) thousand ( 1000 units of something ) ( usually in an indefinite sense ) Gané muchosmiles de dólares. I earned manythousands of dollars Borrowed throughLow German , fromLatin mil(l)ia (passum ) "thousand (steps)." First attested in the latter half of the 14th century[ 1] .
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( after 1889 ) Unit of length, equal to 10,000meters Synonyms: nymil ,myriameter 2020 February 19, Maria Dahlin, “Sverige prisas för 2+1-väg [Sweden is praised for 2+1 road ]”, inVi bilägare :IRAP rekommenderar nu bland annat Indien och Mexiko att bygga 2+1-vägar och tar som exempel att 93.000 liv skulle kunna räddas på 20 år i Indien om1.750 mil mötesväg gjordes om till 2+1-väg. IRAP is now recommending countries like India and Mexico to build 2+1 roads and cites an example that 93,000 lives could be saved over 20 years in India if17,500 kilometres of two-way roads were converted to 2+1 roads. (literally, “1,750 miles ”) 2025 January 29, Kalle Hultenius, “Ölands fotbolls-vagabonder – åttamil hemifrån [Öland’s football vagabonds – eightmiles [ 80 km/50 mi] from home ]”, inÖlandsbladet :Böda/Högby är vana att jobba över stora ytor och den klassiska minibussen har förmodligen gått miljontalsmil de senaste decennierna. Böda/Högby are used to covering vast distances, and their classic minibus has probably clocked up millions ofmiles over the past few decades. ( between 1699 and 1889 ) Unit of length, equal to 18,000ells or 10,688.54meters Synonym: landmil 1831 ,Fredrik Cederborgh ,Berättelse om [ …] John Hall ,page 5 :För att kunna åtkomma dylikt, wäl rätt artigt men föga räntegifwande kram, beslöt han, att, med en särdeles wäl försedd kaßa, resa till Danmarks hufwudstad, ungefär trettiomil aflägsen från deß födelseort Götheborg. In order to be able to access such, indeed quite polite but hardly interest bearing hug, he decided, with a particularly well-stocked purse, to travel to Denmark's capital city, about thirtymiles distant from their birthplace, Gothenburg. ( before 1699 ) Unit of length, with varying measurements depending on time period and region. Tagalog numbers (edit ) 10,000 ← 100 ← 900 1,000 1,100 → 2,000 → 100 Cardinal :sanlibo Spanish cardinal :mil Ordinal :ikalibo ,panlibo ,ikasanlibo ,pansanlibo Ordinal abbreviation :ika-1000 ,pang-1000 Adverbial :makalibo ,makalilibo ,makasanlibo Multiplier :sanlibong ibayo Distributive :libo-libo ,panlibo ,tigsanlibo ,sanlibuhan ,sanli-sanlibo Collective :libo Restrictive :sasanlibo Fractional :kasanlibo ,sangkasanlibo ,ikasanlibo ,saikasanlibo Tagalog Wikipedia article on1,000
Borrowed fromSpanish mil , fromLatin mīlle .
mil (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜎ᜔ )
thousand Synonym: libo “mil ”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph , Manila,2018 mil
( archaic ) a unit of length: 1 mil = 7çaqrım = 7.467 km (seeObsolete Tatar units of measurement )mil (definite accusative mili ,plural miller )
mile (measure of length)mil
thousand Borrowed fromFrench mille , fromLatin mīlle .[ 1]
mil
Onethousand vatu ( currency ofVanuatu ) . FromMiddle Welsh mil , fromProto-Brythonic *mil (compareCornish mil ,Breton mil ), fromProto-Celtic *mīlom (compareOld Irish míl and its descendants;Irish míol ,Scottish Gaelic míl ,Manx meeyl ), fromProto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- ( “ small animal” ” ) .
CompareAncient Greek μῆλον ( mêlon ,“ lamb ” ) ,Armenian մալ ( mal ,“ sheep; mutton; wether; cattle; livestock ” ) ,Central Kurdish ماڵ ( mall ,“ livestock ” ) ,Dutch maal ( “ calf ” ) .
mil m (plural milod ,diminutive milyn )
animal ,beast ,creature vermin ( animal not normally eaten by people ) Welsh numbers (edit ) 10,000[a] ,[b] [a] ,[b] ,[c] ← 100 ← 900 1,000 2,000 → 10,000 → [a] ,[b] 100[a] ,[b] ,[c] Cardinal :mil Ordinal :mil
FromMiddle Welsh mil , fromProto-Brythonic *mil , fromLatin mīlia . Cognate withCornish mil ,Breton mil ,Irish míle .
mil f (plural miloedd )
( cardinal number ) one thousand Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mil ”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies mil
( anatomy ) eye mil
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